![]() In other words this one story is the basis of all human neurosis-and if you take the fall along with it, you have the total of the psychic troubles that can happen to a human."Īccording to the Bible, Cain was the first murderer in history, committing a sin not only against God but against another human being because he felt unloved. ![]() In Journal of a Novel, Steinbeck writes: "As I went into the story more deeply I began to realize that without this story -or rather a sense of it-psychiatrists would have nothing to do. It was so important to Steinbeck that at one point he proposed to his publisher that the book be called Cain Sign. ![]() The story of Cain and Abel is essential for an understanding of East of Eden. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() A poem Miscellaneous thoughts Notes : July/August 1944 Outline for a book The friend. Letters from 21 July 1944 to 28 February 1945 Stations on the road to freedom. A poem Notes : July 1944 Who am I? A poem Christians and pagans. ![]() Letters from 11 April to 18 July 1944 Thoughts on the day of the baptism of Dietrich Wilhelm Rüdiger Bethge, May 1944 The past. A narrative - Holding out until the overthrow. Letters from 3 August 1943 to 10 April 1944 Testament of 20 September 1943 Testament of 23 November 1943 Prayers for fellow-prisoners, Christmas 1943 Report on experiences during alerts Report on prison life after one year in Tegel Lance-corporal Berg. ![]() To the judge advocate, Dr Roeder, during the interrogations - Waiting for the trial. Letters from 11 April to 30 July 1943 Notes, May 1943 A wedding sermon from a prison cell, May 1943 Outlines of letters. His letters now appear in far greater detail, and show his daily concerns and the enormous warmth and humanity of the young German pastor who was executed by the Nazis in 1945 for his part in the "officers' plot" This new, greatly expanded version, while omitting nothing found in the earlier edition, shifts the emphasis of earlier editions on Dietrich Bonhoeffer's theological reflections to the private sphere of his life. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her parents first met on a train departing from King's Cross Station bound for Arbroath in 1964. ![]() Her mother Anne was half-French and half-Scottish. Rowling was born to Peter James Rowling, a Rolls-Royce aircraft engineer, and Anne Rowling (née Volant), on 31 July 1965 in Yate, Gloucestershire, England, 10 miles (16 km) northeast of Bristol. In a 2012 interview, Rowling noted that she no longer cared that people pronounced her name incorrectly. During the Leveson Inquiry she gave evidence under the name of Joanne Kathleen Rowling. She calls herself Jo and has said, "No one ever called me 'Joanne' when I was young, unless they were angry." Following her marriage, she has sometimes used the name Joanne Murray when conducting personal business. ![]() As she had no middle name, she chose K as the second initial of her pen name, from her paternal grandmother Kathleen Ada Bulgen Rowling. Anticipating that the target audience of young boys might not want to read a book written by a woman, her publishers demanded that she use two initials, rather than her full name. Rowling, pronounced like rolling, her name when her first Harry Potter book was published was simply Joanne Rowling. Although she writes under the pen name J.K. ![]() ![]() ![]() Grasping and manipulation are fundamental functions of both animals and robots. Improved materials, processing methods, and sensing play an important role in future research. Challenges for soft grippers include miniaturization, robustness, speed, integration of sensing, and control. Embedding stretchable distributed sensors in or on soft grippers greatly enhances the ways in which the grippers interact with objects. Advanced materials and soft components, in particular silicone elastomers, shape memory materials, and active polymers and gels, are increasingly investigated for the design of lighter, simpler, and more universal grippers, using the inherent functionality of the materials. Such grippers are an example of morphological computation, where control complexity is greatly reduced by material softness and mechanical compliance. ![]() Compared to rigid grippers, end-effectors fabricated from flexible and soft components can often grasp or manipulate a larger variety of objects. A comprehensive review of each type is presented. ![]() Soft gripping can be categorized into three technologies, enabling grasping by: a) actuation, b) controlled stiffness, and c) controlled adhesion. Here, a critical overview of soft robotic grippers is presented, covering different material sets, physical principles, and device architectures. Advances in soft robotics, materials science, and stretchable electronics have enabled rapid progress in soft grippers. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ron Base's new novel, "The Sanibel Sunset Detective," is full of fast-paced action, humor, unexpected plot twists, and memorable characters. ![]() Before long, Tree is up to his neck in the kind of murder and mystery he only imagined as a boy reading the private detective novels he loved. Then a headless body shows up, along with a threatening thug, a couple of suspicious detectives, and a former girlfriend now an ex-FBI agent who suspects Tree knows more than he is admitting. His only defender is his wife Freddie, and even she has doubts. ![]() Everyone on Sanibel Island, Florida where Tree lives, thinks the former newspaper reporter is out of his mind. What's more, the kid has the grand total of $7 with which to hire Tree to find his mother. His first client just turned up at the door and he's twelve years old. Tree Callister is not much of a private detective. ![]() ![]() ![]() Minor nuances in Chrysostom’s teaching on martyrdom include martyrdom as an emigration into Heaven, as a call to a better and more spiritual life, as a change from corruptibility to incorruptibility, and as a spiritual wedding with Christ. ![]() The former include martyrdom as an imitation of Christ’s baptism in death, of his suffering, and of his saving and expiatory sacrifice. The author divides his analysis up into major and minor nuances in Chrysostom’s teaching on martyrdom. 29–153) then provides a comprehensive survey and examination of Chrysostom’s teaching about martyrdom and martyrs. This chapter draws mostly on standard secondary sources but is serviceable nonetheless. ![]() 1–27) offers a survey of ideas and literature about early Christian martyrdom prior to Chrysostom. A thesis submitted to the Theological Faculty of the University of Durham and directed by the Orthodox scholar George Dragas, this book examines martyrdom and martyrs as they are discussed in the writings of John Chrysostom.Ĭhapter 1 (pp. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I thought I might find some peace from it," says Keyes. "I thought it would be a good thing to do, because of my habitual self-loathing and the kind of unpleasantness I put myself through with my own thoughts. She can pinpoint the moment when it happened: in September 2009 she had just done an eight-day residential self-help therapy course intended, she says, to "deal with your demons", involving early starts, late nights and a giving-birth-to-yourself process. I just felt the old me was gone forever," she says in the first interview she's given since it struck. "I don't want to sound self-pitying, but I felt the old me had been washed away, as if there had been an avalanche, and I'd come to and found myself in a totally different landscape, so I didn't know where anything was. ![]() ![]() She spent time in a psychiatric hospital, and took every known variant, combination and dose of anti-depressant. She couldn't formulate sentences her brain felt as if it had slowed right down. Always prone to bouts of depression – "on the spectrum of people, there's happy at one end and Beckett at the other and I'm down at the Beckett end" – she was plunged into something she describes as "catastrophic". T hree years ago, Marian Keyes believed she would never write again. ![]() ![]() ![]() How else to explain the fact that Sissy Mae. Weddings have the strangest effect on people. "Laurenston's latest couple is unabashedly sexual, which makes their emotional battle of wills all the more enjoyable. Buy a cheap copy of The Mane Attraction book by Shelly Laurenston. Mitch has his pride, and he intends to show Sissy Mae that when a lion sets out to make you his mate, the only thing to do is purr, roll over, and enjoy one hell of a ride. Even more worrisome, he's harboring hot, X-rated fantasies about one fast-talking little canine-and he has to deal with every male in Sissy Mae's Pack sniffing around her in a way that makes his hackles rise. Mitch is an undercover cop about to testify against some dangerous ex-associates. It doesn't help that Mitch's appraising gaze makes her feel like the most desirable creature on earth. Exhibit 3: Sissy Mae escorting a bleeding yet sexy lion shifter to her Tennessee Pack's turf for safe keeping. Exhibit 2: the gunmen trying to kill Mitch. Exhibit 1: Sissy Mae waking up in Mitch Shaw's bed the morning after her brother Bobby Ray's nuptials. ![]() ![]() Even the king of the beasts can find himself unexpectedly tamed by the right woman. Shelly Laurenston is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Pride, Call of Crows, and The Honey Badger Chronicles, as well as winner of the RT Book Reviews Readers' Choice Award for her 2016 novel, The Undoing. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Varic’s devoted himself to protect the honor of his race, and he's never wanted a mate before.but he immediately knows he must have this man, and no one else will do. He thinks to simply meet and thank Jason - until he lays eyes on him. The prince of the vampires, Varic Maedoc, is visiting New Orleans when he finds out the man who once helped his counselor is there in the Quarter. He's perfectly content, having left behind the chill of a confusing and danger-filled night in Washington, until he discovers something unbelievable lurking in the steamy darkness of the shadowy streets of the Vieux Carré, something that turns out to be terrifying.and utterly mesmerizing. A new life in New Orleans is all Jason Thorpe had hoped: His quaint little store attracts a devoted staff, and his warm, loving heart grants him a loyal circle of friends. ![]() ![]() Gregor is not happy with his job, which Greenburg calls "degrading" and "soul-destroying," but believes that his family's existence depends upon him "sacrificing himself by working at this meaningless. His son, Gregor, works as a commercial traveler for the company to whom he owes money in effect, Gregor is slowly working off his father's debt. Long before the story takes place, Gregor Samsa's father had a business failure that left him deep in debt. Upon examination, it seems that Gregor's metamorphosis represents both his freedom from maintaining his entire financial stability and his family's freedom from their dependence upon Gregor. However, one cannot help but wonder why Gregor has undergone this hideous transformation, and what purpose it could possibly serve in the story. Despite this fact, Gregor continues to act and think like any normal human would, which makes the beginning of the story both tragic and comical at the same time. The reader learns that Gregor Samsa, the story's main character, has been turned into an enormous insect. ![]() One of Franz Kafka's most well-known and most often criticized works is the short story, "Die Verwandlung," or "The Metamorphosis." "The Metamorphosis" is most unusual in that the first sentence is the climax the rest of the story is mainly falling action (Greenburg 273). ![]() |